Hill
Hill , noun
[Old English hil, hul, Anglo-Saxon hyll; akin to OD. hille, hil, Latin collis, and prob. to English haulm, holm, and column. Compare 2d Holm.]
1.
A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.
Every mountain and hill shall be made low.
2.
The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, transitive verb
3.
A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes. [United States]
Collocations (4)
Hill ant (Zoology) , a common ant (Formica rufa), of Europe and America, which makes mounds or ant-hills over its nests.
Hill myna (Zoology) , one of several species of birds of India, of the genus Gracula, and allied to the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [Written also hill mynah.] See Myna.
Hill partridge (Zoology) , a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Hill tit (Zoology) , one of numerous species of small Asiatic singing birds of the family Leiotrichida. Many are beautifully colored.
Hill , transitive verb
To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.
Showing them how to plant and hill it.